Tour de France 2015 - may contain nuts and SPOILERS

[Pro Tour Punditry]

And they're off...as am I very shortly, so I'll miss today's stage Hopefully I'll get home in time to see the highlights programme.

 

[tommaguzzi]

bad?

This bad?
http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/race_...too-good-to-be-true-fleche-1994/#.Vad1y4hwZpU

 

[raindog]

hey! - we get the whole stage on FranceTelevision today - just started

 

[woohoo]

What gives me a sense of deja vu is sky's domestiques also riding g.c. contenders off their wheels.
Porte said he sat up and let quintana go, supposedly spent after pulling froome up the climb and then just got back on it after been told to catch and and pass quintana to deny him the time bonus for 2nd place.
Then G sat easily in the next group not dropping off but not working so he didn't risk pulling the other GC contenders with him.
On another day sky could have got a 1.2.3 how would that have looked?
Just saying.

.... yeah but if you look at the top 6 on Stage 10, Sky had 3 and Movistar had 2 and that was after Movistar has spent 50+Km at the front. So impressive, yes; suspicious maybe; radically different to their main team competitor (for now), no.

Anyway, onwards and upwards with today's stage.

 

[MisterStan]

Ready for the off

Is Nibali giving you a seatie today Marmion?

 

[Berk on a Bike]

hey! - we get the whole stage on FranceTelevision today - just started

The whole stage is live on British Eurosport too. No good to me at work but I provide this information as a public service...

 

[Dogtrousers]

Nibali's looking strong today.

(Just thought I'd get it in early before he implodes)

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

"We have some real Alpine tests today, although we are in the Pyrenees" - Kirby, you wazzock

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Alpine can relate to other mountainous areas..
(ex climber)

 

[tommaguzzi]

Us retired old folk can watch it on eurosport all day. But its so nice outside I don't think I'll last too long before I have to go out.
It a tough life I lead at the moment. :-)

 

[raindog]

apparently Majka got a cheque for €5000 for being first over the Tourmalet yesterday

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Is there anywhere we can get total metres climbed for the stage?

4,500m according to inrng.com

 

[Dogtrousers]

I think that's officially undulating.

 

[raindog]

it's certainly very pointy

 

[Incontinentia Buttocks]

I'm in a very lucky position this month, had my knee Op in 4th and been signed off for 4 weeks. As a cconsequence I can watch the race all day every day from start to finish. Bliss.